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šØš³ Did DeepSeek lie? Probably. The Chinese-run AI company sent American tech stocks crashing after reporting it only cost āem $5.6 million to chat up to ChatGPT and all the rest. Nvidia lost $600 billion (down 17%) on Monday, the worst drop since March 2020. Turns out that was some creative math. DeepSeek spent that much training its V3 model but has invested $500 million in its tech since 2023. For the record, thatās still pretty low compared to U.S. companies, which spent upwards of $50 billion. ICYMI, hereās more about DeepSeek.
Picture this: DeepSeek says its AI image generator is better than DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. It used 72 million AI images, along with a crapload of real-world data, to train Janus-Pro-7B. I donāt think itās that great. Try it here on a phone or computer you donāt use all the time. Thereās no telling what the Chinese are doing in the background.
Bet heās a peach to be around right now: Mark Zuckerbergās got four āwar roomsā going at Meta HQ to figure out DeepSeekās secrets. Two teams are focused on training and operating costs; the other two are digging into how the data might level up Metaās next Llama model. Think about this: All the U.S.-based AI companies just got a kick in the butt to do better.
Last laugh: Trolls helped Amy Schumer figure out she has Cushingās syndrome. The condition makes your body produce too much cortisol (the stress hormone), causing facial swelling known as āmoon face.ā Guess online haters are good for something.
RadioShack lives: The last store closed in 2017, but the electronics retailerās back online selling SD cards for dirt cheap. Donāt let nostalgia fool you; that 32GB card for under $6 is as outdated as RadioShack itself and runs at a slow 10MB/s. Faster cards (30MB/s) are $19. Hereās a better option on Amazon for $20.
Swatting spree: Youāre sitting at home when the SWAT team rushes in, convinced someone inside just committed murder and has explosives set up. A 23-year-old in Wisconsin, along with another guy, hacked into the familyās Ring camera and called the cops with that story. Once police arrived, they livestreamed it all. One of them is already serving 17 years in prison. If you have a Ring camera, turn on 2FA.
šØāš©āš§āš¦ Chosen family: This number surprised me: About 27% of folks are estranged from their families. So sad. Enter the 11,000-member Facebook group Surrogate Grandparents USA. Donna Skora, a retired paralegal in Florida, started it in 2015. Folks can post ads or respond to othersā requests for surrogate grandparents. Itās helped people like Karen Tautges Malinak, a goat farmer in Minnesota whoās lost touch with her daughters.
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